New Wave Films

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Elia Suleiman writes, directs and stars in this Palestinian comedy. The story follows the film-maker as he travels from his native Palestine to Paris and New York, and ruminates on the meaning of place and his relationship with his homeland as he discovers what it means to be a Palestinian in a globalised world in a series of absurdist vignettes.<br/><br/><i>Typ: DVD</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Emotional drama starring Kathryn Worth as Anna, an upper-middle class English woman who feels she has always lived her life on the periphery of events. Childless and in a deteriorating marriage, she takes refuge with an old school friend's family on holiday in Tuscany. Over the course of a hot summer's fortnight, sexual tensions simmer - and Anna believes she may have found a second chance at happiness. But as events slowly unravel, and the strains within the affluent bourgeois clique are revealed, she is finally forced to confront her inner turmoil and sadness.<br/><br/><i>Typ: DVD</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Persian documentary from film-maker Jafar Panahi. After being banned from making films by the Iranian government and placed under house arrest, Panahi poses as a taxi driver and drives around the busy streets of Tehran picking up passengers and recording their conversations. Along with his diverse subjects, who include teachers, students and pirate DVD sellers, Panahi discusses the social challenges that Iranian citizens face on a daily basis.<br/><br/><i>Typ: DVD</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Argentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel directs this psychological mystery drama. While driving along a deserted country road, affluent middle-aged dentist Vero (Maria Onetto) knocks something or someone over with her car. Unable to bring herself to stop and look, she dismisses it initially as a dog - but gradually becomes convinced in retrospect that she has killed someone. Increasingly panicked and disorientated, Vero enters a trance-like state as she goes through the motions of daily life in her close-knit middle class family.<br/><br/><i>Typ: DVD</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Miguel Gomes directs this romantic drama, which pays homage to the silent films of F.W. Murnau and Robert J. Flaherty. Filmed in black and white, the film is divided into two parts, the first half takes up the story from the point of view of Pilar (Teresa Madruga), a middle-aged political activist whose neighbour Aurora (Laura Soveral) is a senile old lady with a gambling addiction and a propensity to tell colourful tales about her past in Mozambique. As Aurora's health starts to decline, she asks Pilar to track down a man called Ventura (Henrique Espírito Santo), with whom she had a passionate affair as a newly-married young woman. The second part of the film details the affair between the beautiful young Aurora (Ana Moreira) and her Portuguese lover (Carloto Cotta), revealing their secret passion that unfolded in Africa over half an century previously.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Documentary charting the rise and fall of the friendship between Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, the two leading filmmakers of the French New Wave in the 1950s and '60s. Drawing heavily on archive footage, film clips and interviews, the film shows how the political and artistic differences between the two men eventually caused them to disagree so vehemently in the aftermath of the May 1968 strikes in France that they remained enemies until Truffaut's death in 1984.<br/><br/><i>Typ: DVD</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Vincent Lindon stars in this French social drama co-written and directed by Stéphane Brizé. Having been laid-off more than a year ago, 51-year-old former factory worker Thierry Taugourdeau (Lindon) is increasingly struggling to make ends meet with his small monthly unemployment supplement. Trying desperately to provide for his wife (Karine De Mirbeck) and disabled teenage son (Matthieu Schaller), Thierry's lengthy search for work finally leads him to become an in-store security guard at a large supermarket where he is tasked with monitoring the store's CCTV system and deterring any potential thieves. How will he cope with dealing with his fellow desperate citizens who are also just trying their best to make ends meet?<br/><br/><i>Typ: DVD</i>